memories


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Jun 13

Friday throwback

I just made up a reason not to write a lot this week. My reason: June. So this week is full of older pictures. Some of them have been in this space or elsewhere on the site or in some of the regular social media places before. So they might be old to you — and bless you for still visiting — or they might be brand new.

Enjoy.

We were travelling somewhere, Boston I think, in 2011 maybe, when she reached over and grabbed my sunglasses. She looked far better in them than I ever have. And so I seldom wear them anymore:

Ren

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Jun 13

Throwback Thursday

My site, my rules, my lazy excuse — June — for a very light post. This is a week of older pictures. Some of them have been in this space or elsewhere on the site or in some of the regular social media places before. So they might be old to you — and bless you for still visiting — or they might be brand new.

Enjoy.

We saw this heading north back into Montgomery one day early last summer. We’d just been to a wedding. We’d discovered a new barbecue joint. We explored undiscovered backroads. We visited with friends. Everything was lovely. And then there was this crazy cloud:

clouds

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Jun 13

Throwback Wednesday

Because it is June, and because I make up the rules around here, I’ve decided that this will be a week of older pictures. Most of these are on my phone. Some of them have been in this space or elsewhere on the site or in some of the regular social media places before. So they might be old to you — and bless you for still visiting — or they might be brand new.

Enjoy.

This is perhaps my favorite little bridge to ride my bicycle over. I’ve been fortunate to pedal over great big overpasses that cross state lines over brackish waterways and across little bumpy things that just get cars over glorified streams. But this one, all ancient and rickety from the looks of things, carries you over a railroad track.

It is surprisingly sturdy, I’ve watched cars and trucks go over it, but the first time I found it, on the backside of town and the backside of everything I normally ride, I went back and forth over it three times, just to listen to the sounds my bike made on it.

I should ride it again soon.

bridge

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Jun 13

Tuesday throwbacks

Because it is June and my site and so on I’ve decided that this will be a week of older pictures. Most of these are on my phone. Some of them have been in this space or elsewhere on the site or in some of the regular social media places before. So they might be old to you — and bless you for still visiting — or they might be brand new.

Enjoy.

It is hard being the black cat. This is some time in the early fall of 2011:

Allie

Later that same year we had Thanksgiving on Dauphin Island. We stopped just as we crossed the bridge for sunset pictures:

Ren

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May 13

Happy Mother’s Day

My wife, grandmothers and role models. I’m fortunate to have a lot of strong, loving, beautiful women in my life. My mother is, of course, one of them.

MomDay

Those early memories are impossible, and then fuzzy, and then they become more clear.

No matter how the memories look in your mind’s eye you could always count on your mother to be in the background, lifting you up, holding you safely, pushing you onward.

Happy you day!